Alcestis
Euripides
Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley. Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.
- None; the fated day comes on so fast.
- Are then the fitting rites already taking place o’er her body?
- Death’s garniture is ready, wherewith her lord will bury her.
- Well let her know, though die she must, her fame ranks far above any other wife’s beneath the sun.
- Far above! of course it does; who will gainsay it? What must the woman be who hath surpassed her? For how could any wife have shown a clearer regard